Job summary
Assistant Psychologist - Adults of Working Age Inpatient Services, North View, North Manchester General Hospital 1.0 w.t.e, fixed term (12 months) - Band 4
This post provides a great opportunity to gain experience of working psychologically as an assistant psychologist in acute care services (inpatient acute wards and psychiatric intensive care unit) for adults of working age. You will be joining a relatively new team of psychologists and will be working closely with the qualified psychologists to provide psychological input to the Trust's adult inpatient wards at North View hospital, North Manchester. You will be working with a team of medical staff, nurses and occupational therapists. The multi- disciplinary teams on each ward specialise in caring for adults of working age, and offer assessment and treatment for a wide range of mental health needs. The psychology team seeks to support holistic, individualised, culturally sensitive care, planned and delivered in collaboration with each service user. We endeavour to work closely with urgent care and the community teams to ensure a joined -up admission and discharge, enabling each person to return to their optimum health.
The post holder will receive regular clinical supervision from a senior psychologist, and will receive appropriate training opportunities (both provided by the psychology team and external training opportunities.
Main duties of the job
The successful post holder will be working under the supervision of a qualified psychologist and with the operational support of acute care management to facilitate the running of psychology groups for service users on the wards and PICU. Other tasks may include brief focussed psychological interventions, supporting the qualified psychologists with team formulation sessions, , contributing to making ward environments more psychologically informed, and attending peer supervision sessions.
We have an interest in working psychologically with people who often do not get to access psychology (such as people with psychotic experiences or complex trauma). We are also interested in adapting psychological approaches to make them more inclusive and culturally sensitive. We have strong links to the regional Doctoral Clinical Psychology Training courses.
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and make sure your application shows us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this post.
Note this vacancy may close early once sufficient applications are received.
Informal enquiries or visits are welcomed and should be directed to Dimitra Karachaliou, (Clinical Psychologist), Lead for Acute Care Psychology services, Manchester dimitra.karachaliou@gmmh.nhs.uk.
About us
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff benefits
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Excellent pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- Blue Light Card Discounts
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff benefits
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Excellent pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- Blue Light Card Discounts
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- An honours degree or higher in psychology
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Desirable
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems
- Experience of working independently and liaising with other healthcare workers
Desirable
- Experience of working with service users with complex, risky presentations
- Experience of working within an inpatient setting
- Experience of delivering psychologically informed interventions
- Experience of facilitating psychologically informed groups
Knowledge
Essential
- High level of communication skills both written and verbal including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
- Ability to produce reports under supervision to a high standard
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in an appropriate way.
Desirable
- Knowledge of risk assessment and formulation
- Experience working in multi- cultural contexts and experience/awareness of the need to adapt psychological approaches to work with people from different cultural back grounds.
Other
Essential
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
- An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
- An ability to interact with and interest in people with mental health problems or disabilities. Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
Desirable
- Experiences of managing mental health difficulties.
- Experiences of cultural diversity
- Experience of economic disadvantage.
- Experiences relating to discrimination.
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Flexible and adaptable approach to work
- Ability to produce reports under supervision to a high standard
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to the service context
- Ability to demonstrate the Trust values within all aspects of clinical and other work
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- An honours degree or higher in psychology
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Desirable
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems
- Experience of working independently and liaising with other healthcare workers
Desirable
- Experience of working with service users with complex, risky presentations
- Experience of working within an inpatient setting
- Experience of delivering psychologically informed interventions
- Experience of facilitating psychologically informed groups
Knowledge
Essential
- High level of communication skills both written and verbal including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
- Ability to produce reports under supervision to a high standard
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in an appropriate way.
Desirable
- Knowledge of risk assessment and formulation
- Experience working in multi- cultural contexts and experience/awareness of the need to adapt psychological approaches to work with people from different cultural back grounds.
Other
Essential
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
- An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
- An ability to interact with and interest in people with mental health problems or disabilities. Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
Desirable
- Experiences of managing mental health difficulties.
- Experiences of cultural diversity
- Experience of economic disadvantage.
- Experiences relating to discrimination.
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Flexible and adaptable approach to work
- Ability to produce reports under supervision to a high standard
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to the service context
- Ability to demonstrate the Trust values within all aspects of clinical and other work
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
